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09/05/2014 Leave a comment
I think I’m starting to circle in on myself – starting to get some writing projects going. Which means, my thoughts keep turning back to them. Which is good and bad. For now, it means here’s a short thought from a character, tied in with my cruise-ship idea I’m going with for Muse Monday.
Last week I wrote a little bit to go with my story working-titled New Foundation. I’ll probably be coming back to these two in the weeks to come, I’m sure!
08/29/2014 1 Comment
For my first longer-format flash-fiction story, I tried Fantasy. So I thought I would go with Science Fiction here. I used every character of a 140-character tweet. Which is unfortunate, since I was planning on adding the #flashfiction.
It’s a little rough, but it’s me trying to think through the longer story I’m working on. I wrote it a while ago, also. Since then, I’m moving into having a world I’ll be writing shorter fiction in… you can check that out on Monday!
08/23/2014 1 Comment
Whoops.
I forgot about Flash Fiction Friday yesterday. Just completely. My wife talked a bit about what we were up to yesterday, so that’s some of it. And I guess, some of it too is changing Features, you suddenly have something new to remember! Be ye warned.
I always wanted to use the line above for a Meme, and just never had inspiration. It seems like the sort for a two-part sort of thing: the first one, something. There’s the part I didn’t know. But part two is Doctor Moon, from the Doctor Who classics Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, saying “and then, you forgot.” If you have any ideas for making the Meme, let me know and I will see what I can do!
Anyway, Flash Fiction Friday is not dead, it will return – I had even tweeted a story. I’ll just be saving that…
And reminder: Doctor Who series 8 starts tonight!
08/15/2014 6 Comments
I mentioned on Monday that I had been thinking about rearranging some of my Features here on DBCII. One that I have been working on is Six Word Story Saturday, which, while fun, is not the easiest thing to write. And, given I wasn’t getting a lot of interaction on these, I feel no problem with shifting that project to a slightly different one: Flash Fiction Friday.
Because blogging Features need alliteration.
So this is this week’s little story. I am, for now, going to keep doing the stories on Twitter, as an interesting forced limit to them. However, working within 140 characters is still a lot more than six words, so it’s some room to breathe. And, as I discussed last week, trying to create any sort of genre story in six words is very difficult – but I think that with 140 characters, there’s a shot!
So it’s a big improvement over a story like this:
Let me know what you think, and if you have any experience with Flash Fiction!
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